On Monday the 8th of February the committee of the Palestine Solidarity Society decided to put up posters around the college that displayed a brief history of the Middle-Eastern conflict. The posters were designed so that it read like the country Israel was speaking about all the violence it had caused. All the facts put up were true, they can be cross-referenced against any legal journals or reports, and most people with no bias towards Palestine or Israel would agree with what was being shown.

On the morning of Wednesday the 10th, it became apparent to one member of the Committee that our posters had been defaced overnight. Our posters were A3 in size, new posters which were A4 had been taped over them. These new posters had a similar layout to ours but the facts were outright lies, mostly written in response to the facts we had presented. What was even more bizarre was that these same offending posters had been placed over posters for the Human Rights Society also. The posters in question for the Human Rights Society that had been defaced were ones that were advertising a talk about two Deathrow inmates who had been wrongfully convicted.

We would like to ask these vandals why they felt the need to carry out such an act? Did the truth hurt them so much that they felt the need to publicise lies? Did they find it funny denying the existence of a country and its people, to the point where two members of my society were close to tears, them being of part-Palestinian origin.

The Palestine Solidarity Society welcomes debate around the issues of the conflict but will not tolerate distortion of the facts. If anyone has a problem with what we are disseminating, please address it to the society directly.

Signed:

Palestine Solidarity Society Committee

Joseph Loughnane, Luke Connolly, Esraa Hegazy, Colm Bohan, Sarah Shwaiki